A review of Katz's 1983 article “Creativity and Individual Differences in Asymmetric Cerebral Hemispheric Functioning” in the first issue of this journal shows that the data presented do not support the conclusion that creative people have a tendency toward right-hemisphere lateralization in problem solving and verbal processing, but instead suggest that creativity is associated with a pattern of reduced hemispheric asymmetry.
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